That toxic odor you refer to, Donna, I have been known to call the
"Winnebago & Mobile Home Toxic Whiff!"  And, you are absolutely correct in
your observation about it being toxic.

I bought a new "Buddy" mobile home in 1970 to live in while I went to grad
school in Columbia, Missouri.  The lot I purchased in Crescent Meadows had
no trees for any of the "park's" hundred or so pie-shaped lots.

The strength of the "off-gassing" odors from the material used to construct
the "home" under the hot Missouri plains sun was absolutely a killer.  After
less than one year, I sold the thing and leased an apartment in a duplex
near campus and I've breathed better ever since.

SamC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donna Skarloken" <dskarloken@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: [NVC] ABC News: Embalmed in Your Own RV

> All I can tell you is the interior of Westfalias on a hot day doesn't
> smell
> anything like the American built RVs I've been in (ok, totally
> unscientific
> method but it's almost Fryeday).  When I was a kid we had a camper on a
> pickup and then my parents bought a class C motorhome.  On a hot day when
> those were closed up they sure smelled toxic.  None of our Westys ever
> smelled like that, and we live in a hot climate (CA Central Valley).
>
> However, our 1974 Westfalia, acquired after some Deadheads were done
> following the Dead one summer, has a distinctly different aroma when
> parked
> in the sun on a hot day - grassy, you might say.  I think it's finally
> fading but was there for quite a few years.
>
> Donna, Bus Driver
>
>
> On 6/21/07, Tom Buese <tombuese@comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Jun 21, 2007, at 2:14 PM, neil wrote:
>>
>> > In my case, I wondered after posting my last email, if there was such
>> > a thing as "aircraft" plywood. But here's aircraft plywood:
>> >
>> > http://www.airfieldmodels.com/information_source/
>> > construction_materials_for_model_building/plywood.htm
>>
>> Hmmm, this appears to be a model grade & not a construction grade?
>>
>> >
>> > and marine grade:
>> >
>> > http://www.apawood.org/level_b.cfm?content=srv_help_prd_marine
>>
>> Hmmm, waterproof glue like exterior ply, but not treated to resist
>> water/decay-Fooled moi!
>>
>> Tom B.-in any event, the plywood in westy products is not a high
>> grade, but way higher than all the other Aftermarket camper volks?
>> >
>> > I never knew!
>> >
>> > Neil.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 6/21/07, Gerald Masar <azsun99@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> >> And all this time, I thought it was marine grade plywood :).
>> >>
>> >> ----- Original Message -----
>> >> From: "Jeff Ensing" <Kjmmensing@AOL.COM>
>> >> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>> >> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 12:33 PM
>> >> Subject: Re: [NVC] ABC News: Embalmed in Your Own RV
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > Keep in mind our campers use Aircraft grade plywood ...NOT
>> >> particle board.
>> >> >
>> >> > There is still laminating glue there but not nearly as much as
>> >> particle
>> >> > board.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > Jeff  E.
>> >> > Atlanta , Ga.
>> >> > 87' Westy "weekender"
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > ************************************** See what's free at http://
>> >> www.aol.com.
>> >> >
>> >> >
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>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia.
>> >
>> > http://web.mac.com/tubaneil
>>